Predicted to be involved in autophagy of mitochondrion; late nucleophagy; and protein localization to phagophore assembly site. Predicted to act upstream of or within autophagosome assembly. Located in autophagosome. Is expressed in gut; male reproductive gland or organ; and skin. Orthologous to human ATG9B (autophagy related 9B). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]